International workshop, co-organized by CRC Project B01 “Artefacts, Treasures and Ruins – Materiality and Historicity in the Literature of the English Middle Ages” (Head: Prof. Dr. A. J. Johnston), Miriam Edlich-Muth (Freie Universität Berlin) and the Centre for Medieval Literature (Odense and York).
Do we overestimate the impact that the transient socio-political and formal linguistic borders of Western Europe had on the literary culture of the pre-nation state era?
While most current scholarship acknowledges the porous borders of medieval Europe, we continue to think in the context of linguistic and political borders when considering the circulation of texts, using national language categories and political ‘landmarks’ as fixed points by which to structure our understanding of how medieval texts were disseminated. This conference invites scholars to re-examine such discourses of separation, and consider the case for continuity in the language, content or imagery of medieval texts and stories that were adapted and refashioned in different regions.
Contact: Dr. Miriam Edlich-Muth, muth.miriam[at]gmail.com
Programme:
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Friday 21July
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8.30–9.00 Registration
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9.00–9.15 Welcome
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9.15–10.15 Religious Communities and Collaboration across Time and Space
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Victoria Blud (University of York), Soul Sisters: Medieval Mystics, Recusant Readers, and Women’s Literary Communities
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Joshua Easterling (Murray State University/FU Berlin), Coming to Perfection: Margaret the Lame and Collaborative Theology
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10.15–10.45 Coffee Break
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10.45–11.45 Keynote I
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Lars Boje Mortensen (University of Southern Denmark), Western Imperial Literature (c.1050–1320) – A Productive Object of Study?
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12.00–1.30 Buffet Lunch SFB Villa
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1.30–2.30 (Pseudo-)Histories and National Traditions
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Marianne Ailes (University of Bristol): Charlemagne Narratives in the Multilingual British Isles
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Adrien Quéret-Podesta (Palacký University, Olomouc), Mechanisms of Transfer of Annalistic Works from German Lands to Central Eastern Europe around the Year 1000
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2.30–3.00 Coffee Break
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3.00–4.00 Didactic Texts Across Europe
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Emunah Levy (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), The Book of Medicines of Asaph the Physician: A Study Case for the Transmission of a Medical Text in the Medieval Jewish Diaspora
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Claudia Wittig (University of Ghent), Writing ‘Didactic Communities’ in High Medieval Europe – The Moralium dogma philosophorumand its Vernacular Translations
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6.15–7.30 Performance ‘Nasreddin Hodja and Other Stories’ Museum Europäischer Kulturen, with drinks from 5.45
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7.45 Dinner Restaurant Luise
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Saturday 22July
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9.00–10.00 Keynote II
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Christine Putzo (University of Lausanne), On the History of the European Floire Romance: The Evidence of the Fragmentary Ripuarian Version
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10.00–10.15 Coffee Break
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10.15–11.15 European Romance
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Sofia Lodén (Stockholm University/Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Children of Medieval Europe: Floire and Blanscheflur in Different Literary Traditions
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Lydia Zeldenrust (University of York), Mélusine on the Move: Reassessing a Shared European Tradition
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11.15–11.30 Coffee Break
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11.30–12.30 Readers between East and West
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Massimiliano Gaggero (University of Milan), Historiography without Borders: The Long-Lasting Influence of the Estoires d’Eracles
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Falk Quenstedt (FU Berlin), The Marvellous in Transfer: Sindbad, the Sailor (as-Sindibād al-baḥrī) and Different Versions of Herzog Ernst
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12.30–1.00 Closing Discussion
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Zeit & Ort
21.07.2017 - 22.07.2017
Conference Room, CRC 980 “Episteme in Motion”, Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Weitere Informationen
Dr. Miriam Edlich-Muth, muth.miriam[at]gmail.com